Olympics

The ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. However the first Olympic Games for which we have written records for were held in 776 BC, though it is generally believed that the Games had been going on for many years already. The very first modern Olympic Games opened in the first week of April 1896 in Athens, Greece.

2006 - Turin, Italy

2004 - Athens, Greece

2002 - Salt Lake City, USA

2000 - Sydney, Australia

1998 - Nagano, Japan

1996 - Atlanta, USA

1994 - Lillehammer, Norway

1992 - Barcelona, Spain

1988 winter - Calgary, Canada

1988 summer - Seoul, South Korea

In Olympia, Greece the Olympic Games were held every four years. First Olympic game was recorded in 776 BC; that was about 3,000 years ago. At that time this great festival took place to honor the Greek gods. Olympics were held during the great festival. My resources say Olympics were held to please the various gods. One God, in particular, the most important was called Zeus. The Olympics were called Olympiad in Greece.

Now we know where the games are held, but we dont know what games they played? In the first thirteen Olympic games, there was only one event and that was the sprint. The sprint event was about one hundred and eight meters in length. Then later Pentathlon was added and it had different events. There was discus, javelin, jumping, running, and wrestling. After a while, they added Equestrian events and that included chariot racing and riding. The Ancient Olympics did have lots of events. They had two major events Equestrian and Pentathlon events.

They won olive branches, though these olive branches were very important, as the victors in these events were paraded through streets, with their name being as famous as their face.

Their faces were so famous that they were sculpted into statues, which explains the nudity of many of these monuments, as the Olympics were performed in the buff. Also, in addition to statues, the winners of these games were given a great amount of money, as each winning won the man (as all competitors were young men) a small fortune.

The competitors were nude for the purpose of glorifying the perfection of the human body, as perfectly fit and muscular bodies were statues in action.

The Olympic games were established in Ancient Greece in the year 776 B.C. They were held periodically until around 393 A.D. However, the Olympics as we know them didn't start until 1896 in Athens, Greece. And we've been having them ever since... If you want to know more, search it on Answers.com cpt._stryker

Most of the sports that the ancient Greek people played were included in the ancient Olympics. Only free Greek men who spoke Greek were able to participate and spectate the ancient Olympic games.

Some of the games were:

Running

Discus throwing

Javelin Throwing

Wrestling

Boxing

Pankration

Chariot Racing Horse Riding

Hurtels

Running Long Jump

Racing by Foot

There were also some more brutal sports including wrestling to the death witch everything was allowed except eye gouging biting and pinching They also included Sword fighting and archery contests.

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John Baxter Taylor was the first African American person to receive a gold medal in the Olympics. He received this gold medal in the Olympics of 1908.

a Marathon, you can look up marathon Greece on any map

Through the 2008 Games in Beijing no woman athlete, American or other country, has won 5 Olympic gold medals in track and field. The most won by an American woman is 4 by Evelyn Ashford, 1 in the 100 meter dash and 3 in the 4x100 meter relay.

Three other women have won 4 Olympic gold medals in track and field ... Bärbel Wöckel of East Germany, Betty Cuthbert of Australia, and Fanny Blankers-Koen of Netherlands.

Winners received a laurel wreath and an olive branch and often quite a bit of money up to 500 drachmas, a vase of olive oil and possibly even food for life. They were the ancient sports heroes. Sculptors would create statues of them, some of which still survive today.

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a laurel wreath was placed on the winner's head

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Track and Field

Steve Barber

Mexico

Muay thai is a sport but no an olympic one

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Well in dic's adventures of sonic the hedgehog & satam tails is 11 years younger then sonic because sonic is 16 and tail is only 5, But in the games and other media tails is only 8 years younger then sonic because sonic is (of coarse) 16 and tails is 8 years old

Carl Lewis (track)

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No - not unless you miss a gate.

Not necessarily you can get back up and hike to the gate you missed an go around it and continue the race